It is possible, and in some cases make sense, but I would advice against thinking that way. Some words in the context of wordpress core admin might be translated differently in the context of a theme. If the motivation here is to save translation time, then don’t bother as any one with translation experience will … Read more
You can set the site language to whatever you wish in the Settings > General > Site Language. After that, you can head over to your profile and choose a language for the back-end. To do so, head over to Users > Your Profile > Language and change it to English. However, there is an … Read more
In the __() documentation, it says If there is no translation, or the text domain isn’t loaded, the original text is returned. Also, if you don’t provide a textdomain, then ‘default’ is used. So, essentially, __( ‘Name’ ) will try to find a translation in the ‘default’ domain, and, failing that, return ‘Name’. If you … Read more
Your example is correct, simply because it works. There are hundreds of ways to localize strings wich are displayed including html, all good and elegant in their own way. I like to do this as follows: printf( ‘<div class=”updated”> <p>%1$s</p> </div>’, __( ‘All options are restored successfully.’, ‘mytextdomain’ ) ); You also could do this … Read more
I found the issue. So what happens is that when you do redownload the wordpress you need to go BACK into settings and update the language setting in the dropdown. It will have a new value there. 🙂
I used to use WP Native Dashboard. But I just tested it and it’s not working. So I tested a plugin for you and I found one that really works, it’s English WordPress Admin, after you activate it you will see this, you click on Switch to English and it will update your dashboard Language, … Read more
keep the .po. If someone will want to modify your translation he can do it based on your .po but it is much harder to do it (if possible at all) based on the .mo file. You don’t save much by not distributing the .po and it keeps things organized for you as well.
You try this example <?php // outputs a list of languages names ?> <ul><?php pll_the_languages(); ?></ul> <?php // outputs a flags list (without languages names) ?> <ul><?php pll_the_languages(array(‘show_flags’=>1,’show_names’=>0)); ?></ul> <?php // outputs a dropdown list of languages names ?> <?php pll_the_languages(array(‘dropdown’=>1)); ?>
__() and the other l18n functions will handle any string you give them, including line breaks. In my experience, poEdit recognizes them just fine, but if you’re having issues, you may consider using UNIX line break escapes \n instead of actual line breaks inside the strings; in this case, be sure to use double quotes, … Read more
When using other translation tools (other then poedit) like GlotPress you can see the context in which the string for translation is called upon.